Original author(s) | Keith Blount |
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Developer(s) | Literature & Latte |
Initial release | 20 January 2007 |
Stable release | macOS 3.1.5 / 12 December 2019; 10 months ago[1] iOS 1.2.1 / 14 December 2019; 10 months ago[2] Windows 1.9.16 / 14 November 2019; 11 months ago[3] |
Preview release | Windows 2.9.9.9 - RC 9/ 15 August 2020; 2 months ago[4] Linux 1.9.0.1 (abandoned)[5] |
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License | Proprietary (shareware) |
Website | literatureandlatte.com/scrivener |
Scrivener (/ˈskrɪvənər/) is a word-processing program and outliner designed for authors.[6] Scrivener provides a management system for documents, notes and metadata. This allows the user to organize notes, concepts, research, and whole documents for easy access and reference (documents including rich text, images, PDF, audio, video, web pages, etc.). Scrivener offers templates for screenplays, fiction, and non-fictionmanuscripts. After writing a text, the user may export it for final formatting to a standard word processor, screenwriting software, desktop publishing software, or TeX.
Features include a corkboard, the ability to rearrange files by dragging-and-dropping virtual index cards on the corkboard, an outliner, a split screen mode that enables users to edit several documents at once, a full-screen mode, the ability to export text into multiple document formats (including popular e-book formats like EPUB and Mobipocket for Kindle, and markup languages such as Fountain, HTML, and MultiMarkdown), the ability to assign multiple keywords (and other metadata) to parts of a text and to sort the parts by keyword (such as characters, locations, themes, narrative lines, etc.), hyperlinks between parts of a text, and 'snapshots' (the ability to save a copy of a particular document prior to any drastic changes).
I wrote my thesis in Scrivener 2 and have written some other documents in Scrivener 3.great improvements! I am spending hours right now setting up my workflow from Scrivener - Pandoc MMD - LaTeX so that I don't have to think about it in my future writing projects. Scrivener 3.0.2. AppStore QR-Code Scrivener 3. Developer: Literature & Latte. Description “The biggest software advance for writers since the word. And though they added a lot of cool functionality (which I will be blogging about in the weeks to come), it is basically like it was before with a slightly muted color scheme. It’s $20 for an upgrade from Scrivener 2.0 and $45 if you’re starting fresh. (Use the code APRILDAVILA for a 20% discount.) What You Need To Know About Scrivener 3.0. If you purchased Scrivener 2 on or after 20th August 2017, you can update to Scrivener 3 for free. If you purchased Scrivener 2 before that date, you can update to Scrivener 3 with a 45% discount. To upgrade from an earlier version and claim your discount.
Scrivener allows photos, URLs, and multiple other file formats, to be dragged into its interface as well. Because of its breadth of interfaces and features, it has positioned itself not only as a word processor, but as a project management tool for writers, and includes many user-interface features that resemble Xcode, Apple's integrated development environment (IDE). One computer programmer has called Scrivener 'an IDE for writing'.[7]
Keith Blount created, and continues to maintain, the program as a tool to help him write the 'big novel', allowing him to keep track of ideas and research.[8][9] It is built mostly on libraries and features of Mac OS X from version 10.4 onward. In 2011, a Windows version of the software was released, written and maintained by Lee Powell.[10]
Scrivener for iOS was launched for iOS July 20, 2016.[11]
There is no official release for Linux, but there is a public beta version[5] which has been abandoned[12] but still is available to use.[13]
The latest version of Scrivener for Mac is version 3.1.5, and requires macOS Sierra or newer.[1] Scrivener can be obtained from the Mac App Store, but since the Mac App Store application is only usable on OS X 10.6.6 and later, users of earlier versions of OS X must buy it directly from the developer's website instead of the Mac App Store.[14]
The company also makes Scrivener 2.5 available for earlier version of Mac OS X, but claims it is the final version of the software that was built to run on both PowerPC and Intel systems running Mac OS X 10.4 through 10.8. This version is available on the direct sale page in the sidebar titled 'Mac OS X 10.4–8 and PowerPC'.[14]
In addition to the Scrivener version 2 releases, the direct download page provides access to the obsolete version 1.54, but licenses are no longer available for purchase. The 1.54 release is compatible with Mac OS X versions 10.4 through 10.6.[14]
The latest stable version of Scrivener for Windows is 1.9.16.[3] It is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. Windows versions (1.xx) were released after Mac OS X version 2.xx, and are priced the same as the Mac version despite the Windows version having fewer features. The developers have stated version numbers will be aligned when version 3.0 for Windows is released, currently in beta[15] and expected during 2020.[16] Windows version 1.0 users who buy now will receive a free upgrade to version 3 upon its release. Previous Windows version 1.0 owners will be able to upgrade to version 3 for $25.